Acer Iconia W3 810 power supply specifications

no. full price, sealed box,

ACE,

Very curious.

When I first viewed the attached jpg it showed the botton of the white label on the box with "Tablet and Adapter"

Later when I clicked on the link it showed the factory printing on the box.

On my box, the white label lists contents as Tablet and "Home Student Office 2008" but no mention of the AC adapter.

I just now looked at the factory printing on the box as shown in the revised jpg. I had to get a strong light and magnifying glass to see it because dark grey lettering on a medium gray woodgrain background is hardly even noticable, let alone readable. (I have better than 20/20 vision according to my optomolist just 3 weeks ago)

The printing on my box does indeed match your photo. The last line includes "The tablet and  adapter are the only items included in this box."

That is a very deceptive statement in itself. What sort of adapter? Looking at various reviews on the web, some acer W3 810's include a USB adapter that allows you to connect standard USB drives. It is even mentioned in the instructions on the DVD for rebuilding the OS from a memory USB drive.  Are they talking about the USB adapter or the AC adapter. (mine had neither)

aleunge, snip... It might be worthwhile to contact Acer support  ...snip

I spent over 4 hours trying to get into any of the support options at Acer.

Side note here:

To access chat you have to enter ALL THREE of the following correctly.

A 22 digit ALPHA numeric number

A 11 digit numeric number

A Capcha to  prove you are human.

So, I first had to find those numbers. They were not in any of the places the web site says they are or any of the FAQ's.

Of course, If you want to ask how to find then, you have to put them in first.

The site does mention them being on a card included with the tablet, but those turned out to be the MS software key.

Finally I looked at the printed white lable on the box, there are NINE different numbers that qualify as as either 11 or 22 digits. Trial and error finaly narrowed it down and I got past the "you have entered someting wrong"  type messages. Finally I got a "Your product can not be registered, you have 292 days of remaining warrenty, If you believe this is an error upload a copy of your reciept."

I used my web cam to take a snapshot but that resulted in a file to big error. I shrunk and trimmed the photo, converted it to black and white, but it was stll to big. I found a program that would let me set the amount of jpeg compression and after increasing the amount of compression from 10 to 20, then 40 I finaly got a file with a setting of 80 that would upload. (While the large WALLMART logo could be read, the rest of the text was hardly readable.)

That finally got me into chat.

After explaining my problem I was treated to a series of random posts spaced exactly 15 seconds apart. You know the type, somehing like:

"Thank you   bob   for your kindly understanding while your problem I research."

He did say he would Fed Ex an AC adapter to me but it would take two to three days to process my warranty information. He then gave me a link to a form where I could enter all sorts of info including the store address and store number, my phone number, address, length of my #### and upload another photo of the reciept. I was assured that if there was a problem, they would call me.

Sorry I coulden't copy the entire chat and post it here, I was doing it on the tablet. I swear it lasted HOURS and I was batteing a dwindling battery when trying to copy the chat to skydrive and lost the battle.

So here I sit by the phone typing on my old Sony laptop running Vista, (no spell check), waiting for Fed Ex or a phone call.

...later

...     Bob

No, I coulden't. They are out of stock. Worse, they have never had a working one on display. Their display models were all dead.

I had decided to get one several months back but didn't because I never got my hands on a woring one. Two weeks ago I visited te store and it had been a couple months since they had removed te display model. This time they had a new display model but it was also dead, it would not charge with the adaper. I looked at the adapter and it was only 200ma. no brand name on it. I had read plenty of reviews and decidied to get mine even without being able to see an actual screen display. I had created a simlated screen and scaled it down to the W3 screen size. I still wasn't sure it would be practical and wanted to see the real thing. Turns out my worry about readability was unfounded, I am very happy with the readability, virtual keyboard, speed and usability of the W3. 

If there is any complaint at all. it is with the documentation. Had there been a clear, accurate list of contenets, WITHOUT the "Actual contents many vary" cop out, I would not have lost the argument with the ***** sales person about what is included. Even the "Adapter" word printed on the box leaves out the word "Power" or "AC" allowing the sales person to offer a USB adapter instead of a power brick.

Oh!  yes, I'm in the USA